While at the ITFA and BCR: Trade & Investment Forum 2023, Trade Finance Global’s Deepesh Patel was happy to sit down and talk to Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE to discuss what the UK government is doing to support this digital transition.

To kick off Trade Finance Global’s Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments roundtable event and dinner, President and Chair of US EXIM Bank, Reta Jo Lewis gave a keynote address to the audience. 

Trade Finance Global (TFG) is happy to champion International Women’s Day 2023, highlighting the stories and success of women across the trade, treasury and payments (TTP) industry and beyond. 

TradeMark Africa (TMA), Tony Blair Institute (TBI), and Trade Catalyst, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to closely collaborate in trade facilitation and trade finance in order to grow… read more →

Over the next 12-24 months corporates in Asia Pacific are looking to move more of their supply chains closer to home. According to HSBC’s latest report ‘Global Supply Chains –… read more →

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, said it will provide Sri Lanka a $400 million cross-currency swap facility to help fund essential imports. Three private banks,… read more →

TFG interviewed ITFA and ADB about the financing of dirty commodities and fossil fuels, and what a sustainable transition means for trade finance.

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG, 27 February 2023

Allianz Trade, a provider of trade credit insurance, is set to acquire an additional 50% stake in Cosec, the Portuguese export credit agency (ECA), from Banco BPI, Portugal’s fourth largest… read more →

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today to discuss the country’s development priorities. Mr. Asakawa conveyed ADB’s intention to provide $20 billion–$25… read more →